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Upper-Bounded Scalars and Argumentation-in-Language Theory
Anglophonia, 2019 Scalar implicatures, such as the ‘not all’-implicature attached to “some”, have been at the center of debates on the semantics-pragmatics interface ever since Horn (1972).
Laura Devlesschouwer
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Implicatures and Discourse Structure [PDF]
, 2013 International audienceOne of the characteristic marks of Gricean implicatures in general, and scalar implicatures in particular, examples of which are given in (1), is that they are the result of a defeasible inference.
Asher, Nicholas
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Investigating the timecourse of accessing conversational implicatures during incremental sentence interpretation [PDF]
, 2013 Many contextual inferences in utterance interpretation are explained as following from the nature of conversation and the assumption that participants are rational.
Altmann G. +18 more
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Universal Implicatures and Free Choice Effects: Experimental Data
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2009 Universal inferences like (i) have been taken as evidence for a local/syntactic treatment of scalar implicatures (i.e. theories where the enrichment of "some" into "some but not all" can happen sub-sententially): (i) Everybody read some of the ...
Emmanuel Chemla
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Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature [PDF]
, 2009 Bare plurals (dogs) behave in ways that quantified plurals (some dogs) do not. For instance, while the sentence John owns dogs implies that John owns more than one dog, its negation John does not own dogs does not mean "John does not own more than one ...
Zweig, E.
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Experimental Evidence for Embedded Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 2011 Scalar implicatures are traditionally viewed as pragmatic inferences which result from a reasoning about speakers’ communicative intentions (Grice 1989). This view has been challenged in recent years by theories which propose that scalar implicatures are a grammatical phenomenon.
Chemla, E., Spector, B.
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, 2019 How should we account for the contextual variability of knowledge claims? Many philosophers favour an invariantist account on which such contextual variability is due entirely to pragmatic factors, leaving no interesting context-sensitivity in the ...
Kindermann, Dirk
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The neural computation of scalar implicature [PDF]
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2014 Language comprehension involves not only constructing the literal meaning of a sentence but also going beyond the literal meaning to infer what was meant but not said. One widely-studied test case is scalar implicature: The inference that, e.g., Sally ate some of the cookies implies she did not eat all of them.
Hartshorne, Joshua +3 more
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 For over a decade, the interpretation of scalar expressions under embedding has been a much debated issue, with proposed accounts ranging from strictly pragmatic, on one end of the spectrum, to lexico-syntactic, on the other.
Bart Geurts, Bob van Tiel
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Scalar properties of negative polarity superlatives
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 Most theories agree that polarity sensitivity must be related to scalarity one way or another. Superlatives are a good example of this, since their “endpoint nature” allows for them to be in negative contexts with a quantitative interpretation.
Ulises Delgado
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